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NA7651

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA7651
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Stem | Cloth | Grass | maidenhair fern
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Technical notes: close twined, two-strand, three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 10 warps, 17 wefts per square inch. Inverted bottom; three-strand side bottom and top, salvage pattern

Height 22.2 cm
Width 24.5 cm
Outside Diameter 18.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from G. T. Emmons, 1918
Other Number A/15 - Field No SF

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